Thomas J Chandler

thomasjchandler@gmail.com
A senior level engineer with a decade of experience building and improving web based applications, as well as providing technical and personal leadership.
Lead Software EngineerTicketleapJuly 2016 - Presenttypescript, angular2, python, less, flask, sql, ansible, aws, docker

As a Lead Software Engineer at Ticketleap I was responsible for developing features for Port, a preorder platform with an embeddable interface and a 2 tier microservice backend. In addition I managed 2 reports, providing mentorship and architectural guidance on their projects.

In January of 2015, I moved to the Data Activation team in Monetate's product engineering department. My management work expanded to deal with agile processes, managing the team's relationship with the product owner, and representing the team at department meetings.

Performed regular 1-­on­-1s and triannual reviews of a team of 4 engineers.

Developed features and improvements for a Data Import and Evaluation Tool.

Helped develop and manage a new agile process.

Groomed early stage feature requirements to ensure they were ready for the team.

Wrote queue management features for bulk data uploads.

Implemented REST API for SFTP User Management.

Built a dynamic searching and filtering UI to allow clients to explore their data.

Gave a presentation on Monetate's Javascript technology and how it works within the browser life cycle to a technical audience at Monetate's yearly client summit.

After proving myself as a Technical Lead, I was given management responsibilities for a team of JavaScript Engineers. While maintaining my day to day engineering responsibilities, I also provided technical and personal leadership.

Performed regular 1-­on-­1s and triannual reviews of 4-­7 engineers.

Provided technical guidance and support to the entire engineering team.

Hosted group learning sessions to explore functional programming through katas in Haskell and Clojure.

Provided architectural guidance and code for a UI tool to simplify client site integrations.

As a member of Monetate's delivery engineering team, I was responsible for integrating client sites into our platform as well as working with client service professionals to develop custom features. These integrations and features were third-party scripts that had to be performant, cross­-browser and reliable.

Member of a small team of developers responsible for CrewNet, the primary information and workflow portal for Vanguard's 14,000+ employees. I was also a key member of the team that created Vanguard's extranet.

Designed and developed Gatekeeper: A feature toggle system allowing us to enable, disable and target access to features at runtime.

Developed a single page application to enable crew to register political activities with our compliance systems.

Managed integrations with other corporate systems, such as benefits and payroll.

Implemented user registration and login workflow for our extranet.

Refactored and modernized large amounts of legacy JavaScript.

Presented to various teams throughout the company about my team's continuous delivery initiatives.